Asus Prime X570-Pro Ryzen 3 AM4 with PCIe Gen4, Dual M.2 HDMI, SATA 6GB/s USB 3.2 Gen 2 ATX Motherboard

I have owned this motherboard for around 12-18 months now. I have built many PCs, used a lot of motherboards, and did a lot of research before picking this board. After almost 18 months of use I can say I’ve never had one single issue with this motherboard. It looks premium, has great features, USB C, some of the best memory overclocking across all X570 boards, and much much more. It comes with 12+2 power stages, duel NVMe 4.0 support, DDR4 support up to 4400mhz, multiple RGB and ARGB headers, 6 PWM fan headers plus a water pump header, USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and basically as good as it gets everything outside on board WiFi. That’s the only thing it’s missing. It’s ready out of the box for both Ryzen 3000 and 5000 chips with no changes needed to the bios. Speaking of the bios it’s amazing. Very easy to navigate and feature rich. I’m running a Ryzen 5800X, duel Gen 4 NVMe drives, an RTX 3080, 6 fans, an AIO, 4 sata based SSDs, and an internal wireless card. I’m using an EVGA G3 Supernova 80+ Gold 850 Watt PSU to power it all. The board takes two EPU(CPU) cables to power it but will work fine with just one as well if your PSU doesn’t have two. I overclock all my components. I enjoy tinkering and have always overclocked. This board overclocks extremely well on the CPU and even better on the memory. It even has one step overclocking where the board does it for you for some extra performance if you don’t want to. Asus fan control is fantastic too. It automatically detects rather you are using DC or PWM fans and syncs them all up. Auto adjusting their speed based on temps of your system. Very easy to flash to a new bios, and do whatever you like on this boards Bios. When you power it on there are CPU, GPU, Ram, and Boot LEDs that blink to let you know if there are any issues and at which stage in startup it occurs. The board has massive heatsink around the CPU socket and the chipset fan does an amazing job at keeping the chipset cool while being silent. I run my 5800X at 5.1ghz all cores, with all my storage drives, both NVMe slots populated with Gen 4 drives, tons of case fans, and a heavily overclocked RTX 3080 and I’ve no had any issues at all. Prior to the 3080/5800X I had a 2070 Super and Ryzen 3600X in it. Worked just the same and perfect with that hardware as well. My memory config is also 32GB of 3600mhz G.Skill. I use 4x8GB sticks so all 4 dimm slots are populated and it still runs 3600mhz CL16 without issue perfectly. I can even get them to run higher if I want but I can’t get my infinity fabric to match the speed so I leave them at 3600mhz. The board has RGB on both the chipset fan and on the top left near the your ports. You can change the colors of this to whatever you like to match the rest of your setup. It’s subtle but looks nice. Or you can have them off if you want no lighting. All in all this is an amazing board for overclocking with tons of ports and features, an easy to use bios, duel Gen 4/PCIE 4.0 support, and it looks fantastic. It’s been featured and used in many of LTTs PC builds and videos as a great motherboard for a high end machine without over paying for extra features you will never use. As I said the only thing it doesn’t have that you may want is on board WiFi. Just throw a wireless card in and you’re good to go. There are more than enough slots for one plus any size GPU or GPUs you like. I love this motherboard and it’s one of the best and easiest to use I have ever owned. My temperatures on all my components even while overclocked stay well below average using this board and my case which is designed for high air flow. The VRM cooling is excellent here. You can overclock and push any Zen 2 or 3 Ryzen based chip you like. It has a ton of USB ports both type A and C so plenty to hook up whatever you need. Support for RGB and ARGB, 6 says ports, two NVMe slots, and 7 fan headers in total counting the pump one. You can make a monster rig with this board. An amazing and fantastic looking X570 board. Another thing I forgot to mention I really like about it is one NVMe slot comes with it’s own heatsink cover built in but one does not. Many boards now both come with covers. Which you might think is good but most of the nice high end Gen 4 NVMe drives come pre installed with a nice thick heatsink already on them. So you can put it in the slot with no internal heatsink cover and rock on without removing it at the expense of damaging it. If you have an NVMe with no built in heatsink you have a slot for that too. It’s just a great all around board for any system rather it’s be for gaming or content creator/professional use. I included some pics of the box, the board, and my PC with it running on the board. If you are gonna use any Zen 2/3 based chip then have no worries and be at ease that it will 100% work just fine on this board straight out of the box. If you have any concerns as long as you don’t NEED on board WiFi and plan to use an internal wireless card or Ethernet cable then put them to rest. Order with confidence that you are getting an excellent board that will do whatever you need. I hope this review helped. Thanks for reading, check out the pics, and please leave a like if it did. If anyone has any questions just submit them and I will answer them the best I can. Thanks!

BOTTOM LINE:If you're an overclocker, this is not a board that's going to hold your hand. It doesn't have the diagnostic features that less confident system builders have come to rely on. This is old school overclocking, and as someone who has been building/overclocking systems for 17 years, I LOVE this board. I did need to use another CPU to flash the BIOS to accept my Ryzen 5 3600X, so keep that in mind if you're buying this for a Zen2 build. A bit of a pain, but for the great price of this board, who cares?VRM COOLING:As others have said about the VRM heatsinks, they're not the best thing out there for sure, but work great with some airflow. I have a 120mm low speed fan blowing over the socket because I'm watercooling my CPU with a custom loop, and with Prime95 the VRM's stop heating up at 61c after 45 minutes. The VRM cooling is fine for a 6 core or 8 core, but a 12 core is probably not ideal on this board, but it would definitely run one, just don't expect to be hitting 5GHz (obviously) and give the VRM's some airflow.RAM compatibility:RAM overclocking on this board was a pleasure. Just make sure to move your case reset switch to the CMOS jumper on the board to save yourself the headache of shorting the CMOS pins with a screwdriver to clear the CMOS if you push too far and the board won't boot. I was able to get my Ripjaws V 3200Mhz to 3600MHz pretty easily on 1.38v, and could probably run 3800MHz, but don't see the need as I'm already getting better results than just about every similar 3600X build I see.OVERCLOCKING:Let's be real, overclocking is dead on Zen2, however, RAM overclocking is very much alive and worth it. But I was able to get an all-core overclock of 4.3GHz at 1.36v with my 3600X, but ABBA BIOS has my CPU hitting 4350MHz all-core with stock settings + PBO, so manual overclocking is pointless and only does better in certain situations, with much higher temperatures and voltages. Not worth it.FEATURES:This board probably has all the features you need, so here are the *relatively* important features this board lacks for overclockers/storage needs: No BCLK adjustment, No PCI-E spread spectrum adjustment, and obviously no PCI-E Ver. 4.0.AUDIO:The onboard audio, while better than most, is still barely passable. It's very flat and dry, and lacks the clarity and dynamic range you'll have with a good sound card. Believe it or not, sound cards are still relevant if you care about good audio, because coming from an old school X-Fi Platinum, this doesn't even come close and I'm finding it very hard to enjoy music like I was with the X-Fi. I'll be adding a sound card to this system, it needs one.RGB:Ugh, who cares? Yes, it has RGB. Yes, it works. Yes, the software works too. I set it to a static color because anything else just pointlessly eats up CPU cycles in the background. Honestly, I would've rather had more money put into the audio solution versus this stupid trend of pretty seizure inducing LED's. More power to you if you like it, but personally I think the board looks excellent with or without it.CONCLUSION:I'm very happy with the board apart from the very average audio. Everything else has been great, and this system is monstrously fast for the price, and it's rock solid stable with my RX 5700 XT. It leaves my old Xeon X5675 @ 4.8GHz build in the dust.